Questions tagged [xmlstarlet]
Open source command line utility for XML file processing.
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Extract value of element in XML with xmlstarlet
My situation is very specific, and I am a beginner with xmlstarlet.
I have an XML file like the one below, which contains hundreds of entries.
<netbooks>
<file id="2">
<...
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'xmlstarlet edit' using a variable as XPath
When you follow the doc:
xmlstarlet edit --help
you can read that --var can be used to declare a XPath expression as a variable.
Generating moc file:
cat<<EOF > /tmp/file.xml
<root>
&...
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Sum values in xmlstarlet from two siblings?
I am using xmlstarlet to extract text from elements with a specific preceding sibling event. An example from the XML file:
<event type='cue' units='sec'>
<onset>11.134</onset>
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Remove all namespace attributes from xml using xmlstarlet
I want to remove all the namespace attributes from the following XML.
<md:EntityDescriptor xmlns="urn:_" xmlns:md="_"></md:EntityDescriptor>
I have tried to remove ...
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How to download latest MediaWiki from command line?
One can download MediaWiki via a web browser GUI here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
The download link there isn't version agnostic (it changes any time a new version comes out), that makes ...
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how to delete a div with a specific class from XHTML using xstarlet?
I have several hundred .xhtml files in a sub-directory(*) and I want to delete all DIVs with a specific class (and the entire contents of those DIVs - including other divs, spans, image and paragraph ...
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Deleting an XML tag in a huge file
I have difficulty parsing a huge XML file (about 100GB with large nodes). I am trying to reduce the node sizes by deleting unnecessary tags. For example, any <text> tags.
If I use native XML ...
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How to untag, in an XML file, a chain of tagged characters that are embedded within specified tags
What is the xmlstarlet command to untag, in an XML file, a chain of tagged characters that are embedded within specified tags?
Example: searching every occurrence of the tag <b>, that needs to ...
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How to rename, in an XML file, specific tags that are embedded in some other specific tags
What is the xmlstarlet command to replace a tag value by another one, only for specified tags embedded in other specified tags?
Example: searching every occurance of the tag b, that needs to be ...
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Change the version number from 97 to 98 in an XML file [closed]
I want to change the version number with respect to the ip. For example for this ip 10.228.134.226, it should change the version number from 97 to 98
<qa:browsers>
<browser name="...
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How can I use xmlstarlet to query a tag for two attribute values?
Example:-
<item href="cover.jpeg" id="cover" media-type="image/jpeg"/>
I'd like to select @id="cover" and media-type="image/*" and retrieve @...
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xmlstarlet command for batch processing .xhtml files
I've tried xmlstarlet for processing an individual .xhtml files.
xmlstarlet fo --omit-decl --recover --html file.xhtml
This command process an individual files and prints output on terminal only.
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XMLstarlet to fix image tags and replace path for images
I have multiple .XHTML files in the folder. The top declaration part is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-...
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reading XML file and extract only node names and structure
I need to audit XML file structures and need to generate a report that shows only the DOM tree structure and omit the values. Essentially, I just the node names only and no values. I tried using ...
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Update XML parameter, with namespace, using xmlstarlet
I have this XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<engineConfiguration xmlns="http://bla.com/engine/management/engineConfiguration">
<...
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Convert this regex to be friendly within sed
I am trying to perform this regex with sed, but seems like sed does not support? It says invalid character range
echo "$info" | sed -e 's/(?:\d[\s-.]*){12,19}/*/g'
Trying to match any ...
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xmlstarlet how to select tag immediately before selected tag
I scan scribus SLA files and wish to find the text having some specific paragraph styles.
SLA file format is a quite flat XML format and there are several paragraphs in a row, each being separated ...
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Trying to read XML attributes from multiple files and replacing them with a number 1.25 times greater than they were before
I am trying to write a bash script or something similar, that I can use to modify all occurrences in a bunch of xml files with one click. I have 24 xml files, each containing a few dozen lines and ...
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xmlstarlet select iteratively multiple occurences of same tag
I am trying to select attribute values within multiple occurrences of same tag using xmlstarlet within a for loop ,but the $i in the iteration is not taking value as expected , I am referencing it as &...
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Use xmlstarlet to remove an entire element that matches an attribute value?
My question is similar to sed - Delete XML node containing certain element - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange. Trying to implement the suggestions there has kept me busy all day, but I haven't managed ...
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How to extract specific node values without travesing via xmlstarlet
<xml>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<host>
<ip>56....
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How to Search XML Block and Delete the same
This is my XML.
<configGroup>
<type>SERVER_CONFIG</type>
<configProperty id="Server48">
<configProperty>
<name>Server Name</name>
<...
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I want to add a namespace prefix to the tags of the default name space of an XML document from the shell
I have a SVG file, which is an XML document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
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parse Duration from xml using xmlstarlet
The file looks like
<MediaInfo xmlns="https://mediaarea.net/mediainfo" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="https://mediaarea.net/mediainfo https://mediaarea....
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insert a line into xml using xmlstarlet
I have an XML file which looks like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Solr managed schema - automatically generated - DO NOT EDIT -->
<schema name="default-...
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how to parse the xml that have multiple properties and names
if we are having a XML script like this , How to get the value of a particular name using XML parsing
<?XML>
<conf>
<prop><name>something</name><value>1</value&...
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Creating new elements with xmlstarlet
I have been trying to to add new elements to an XML file.
Original file:
<levela>
<levelb>
</levelb>
</levela>
I'm trying to get the following result:
<levela>
&...
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Extract select match value of same contents in XML file
I using this command for below xml file.
xmlstarlet sel -t -v '//channel[protected = "True"]/playlist_url' -nl file.xml
and result;
host.net/aa/vodpr
host.net/aa/vodpr/con_tv_r.php
Can I choose a ...
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How to extract selected value in XML
I would like to extract only a value from similar content XML file.
Example;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<items>
<channel>
<title><
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Set bash variables from XML tags
I have the following xml file
<root>
<deviceID>IO238470374109730497</devicdeID>
<KeyValuePairs>
<KeyValuePair>
<BASE-URL>site.com</BASE-URL>
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Extract content between tags which is having sub tag
Extract the desired content from the file using "xmlstarlet" or "sed" or "awk" or some similar tool.
The process should refer the full name of the particular businessprocesses and then should just ...
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Parsing 12,000+ XML files
I have a folder that contains 12,000+ XML files. I need to get a list of files within that folder that meet certain criteria.
In the XML file there is a node called /BillingData/InvoiceLinesList/...
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need to join only certain lines of a xml file together [duplicate]
I would like to transform this XML to where only certain lines are joined together. This is so I can later grep only specific lines. If this XML used attributes, then the data would already be in 1 ...
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XmlStarlet xml to csv output as 'NaNNaNNaN'
I wrote a a query xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m badges/row -v "concat(@row, ',')"
-n Badges.xml and the output is repeated as:
NaNNaNNaN...
for what is likely the amount of rows in the Badges.xml file. I ...
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Executing Command in Pipes
I need to understand why I am not able to execute the following.
ls -d /data/VT60000* | xargs -IDIRECTORY find DIRECTORY -type f -iname RJ\*.xml | xargs -IFILE sh -c ' XML=$( xmlstarlet fo -D "FILE" )...
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Edit XML using xmlstarlet only in one subnode
When using the command:
-bash-4.2$ xmlstarlet ed -u "/configurations/rules/rule/branch" -v 'DAVID' config.xml > final.xml
I see that the output file was changed to DAVID, But it was changed ...
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Rename XML elements to a sequence
I was looking at a possible XML-based solution to another question. I'm aware of its accepted answer, which offers sed and python solutions.
The given XML fragment is:
<Names>
<Name>...
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How exactly does xmlstarlet move work
I want to move around elements in an xml document with xmlstarlet
Specifically I want to make the following changes
<parent>
<before/>
<span><a>blah</a></...
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Insert a tag with a unique identifier into a XML
I'm able to add a new node with a custom fixed value to my XML file in this way, with xmlstarlet:
xmlstarlet ed --subnode "/legge190/data/lotto" --type elem -n newsubnode \
-v "myvalue"
But how to ...
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how to massage or format html in order to parse with xmstarlet?
Do I first need to run html in the wild through something like jsoup? Not to make it valid in a human sense, might turn it to gibberish, but at least so that xmlstarlet can process the file?
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How to convert multi level xml to a single line containing all levels using XMLSTARLET
The sample XML looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<root>
<level01>
<field01>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA</field01>
<field02>...
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Can I convert fields in XML to tags using xmlstarlet?
I want to convert fields in Tags to tags within that tag for example
<book name="Data Structure" price="250" pages="350"/>
to
<book name="Data Structure&...
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Why isn't this XMLStarlet Query Working?
I'm trying to write a simple bash script that parses price info from the ebay developer API search results. Here's an example of XML search results for "Detective Comics 700":
<...
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